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cs.RO2026
Efficient Emotion-Aware Iconic Gesture Prediction for Robot Co-Speech
Edwin C. Montiel-Vazquez, Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas +3
Co-speech gestures increase engagement and improve speech understanding. Most data-driven robot systems generate rhythmic beat-like motion, yet few integrate semantic emphasis. To…
cs.RO2025
When and How to Express Empathy in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
Christian Arzate Cruz, Edwin C. Montiel-Vazquez, Chikara Maeda +1
Incorporating empathetic behavior into robots can improve their social effectiveness and interaction quality. In this paper, we present whEE (when and how to express empathy), a fr…
cs.RO2024
Data Augmentation for 3DMM-based Arousal-Valence Prediction for HRI
Christian Arzate Cruz, Yotam Sechayk, Takeo Igarashi +1
Humans use multiple communication channels to interact with each other. For instance, body gestures or facial expressions are commonly used to convey an intent. The use of such non…